In 1964 in the ancient necropolis
of Saqqara, Egyptian archaeologist Ahmed Moussa
discovered
a series of tombs with rock-cut passages in the escarpment
facing the causeway that lead to the
pyramid of Unas.

Soon after the Chief Inspector Mounir Basta
reported crawling on his hands and knees through the passages, entering
one of the Old Kingdom tombs.

He was impressed with its unique scenes of two men in
intimate embrace, something he had never seen before in all the Saqqara
tombs.

Meanwhile archaeologists working on the restoration of
the causeway of Unas discovered that some of the stone blocks that had
been used to build the causeway had been appropriated in ancient times
from the mastaba that had originally served as the entrance to this newly
discovered tomb. The archaeologists reconstructed the mastaba using the
inscribed blocks found in the substructure of the causeway.

It was revealed that this unique tomb had been built for
two men to cohabit and that both shared identical titles in the palace
of King Niuserre of the Fifth Dynasty: "OVERSEER OF THE MANICURISTS
IN THE PALACE OF THE KING."

To take a tour of the tomb and to see some of the remarkable
representations of these two men click below on the icon of the manicurists.